Dating Awards 2024: Bedroom Products
Turn Up the Heat on Your Sex Life With Our Picks for the Top Bedroom Products of 2024
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Nobody wants to be bad at sex — but how to actually be good?
Contrary to the beliefs that it’s all about the size of your genitals or even how in shape you are, a good chunk of it is just listening to your partner(s) and doing what they want. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t take things up a notch with a few thoughtful purchases.
Sex that’s nothing but naked bodies can be great, but sex that incorporates a little technological innovation can absolutely be great too.
Still, how to know which products to incorporate? There are so many out there, and the number increases every year. But frankly, some of them are not very good, and many of them are simply not a good fit for everyone.
But the ones that work can absolutely revolutionize the way you have sex and how much pleasure you experience from it. To help you distinguish the good from the bad, here are our picks for the 2024 AskMen Dating Awards, Bedroom Products edition:
Best Bedroom Toys
Best High-Tech Male Toy
Lovense Solace
If you’ve watched any amateur porn or cam performers in the past few years, you’re likely familiar with Lovense’s ultra-popular pink Bluetooth toy, the Lush line. But toys for people with vaginas aren’t their only strong suit, as the brand new Solace masturbator makes clear. It pairs a great-feeling sleeve with a powerful and versatile motor, app control and a no-muss, no-fuss way to clean it once you’re done. The one drawback might be that it’s not the quietest ever toy, but the ability to have it vibrate to any song you like means that you can easily drown out the buzzing with your favorite sex playlist.
Check out the Lovense Solace
Best Low-Tech Male Toy
Satisfyer Masturbator Eggs
Sorry to everyone else out there making their own versions of this, but Satisfyer’s Masturbator Eggs remain unbeaten when it comes to the basic sleeve concept. They use water, not lube, to achieve a slick and gooey sleeve texture, and come in a variety of designs to offer you different grips and grooves. The drawback is that they’re single-use only products, but from a sheer sensation and ease-of-use perspective, they are truly better than similar products from other brands.
Check out the Satisfyer Masturbator Eggs
Best Couples Toy
We-Vibe Sync O
If you’re creative enough, basically any sex toy could count as a couples toy. But for the best of the best, you want something that’s specifically designed to work during partnered sex and pleasure both participants. Enter We-Vibe. Their Chorus won this category last year, and the Sync O has arrived to claim the top spot in 2024. It’s perfect for hetero couples — internally stimulating both the G-spot and the penis, while externally stimulating the clitoris. It’s also Bluetooth-capable, meaning you can control the intensity of the vibrations mid-coitus with a handy remote.
Check out the We-Vibe Sync O
Best Clit Toy
Womanizer Next
Womanizer, the brand that invented the airflow-based clit toy category, is back on top with their latest release, the Next. Small, sleek, powerful and whisper-quiet, the Next is an incredible little gadget for delivering serious clitoral pleasure without wearing out its sensitive nerve endings. It’s great for solo fun for clit-havers, but it can also be a fun way to upgrade partnered sex — its small size means it can be effortlessly introduced to lots of positions, especially Doggy-Style-inspired ones that feature penetration from behind.
Check out the Womanizer Next
Best Clit/G-Spot Combo Toy
LELO Enigma Wave
Unless you’re a trans guy, you may not be over the moon about a product that can pleasure the clit and the G-spot at the same time. Where does that leave room for you? Still, whether it’s to add some oomph to a blowjob, to amp up mutual masturbation sessions or to simply give a partner uninhibited access to lots and lots of orgasms, if you want a toy that’ll drive someone with a vagina absolutely wild with pleasure, the LELO Enigma Wave is your friend.
Check out the LELO Enigma Wave
Best Vibrator
Femme Funn Bougie Wand
The sex toy industry can sometimes feel like a bit of an old boys’ club that’s hard to break into (witness: the same brand winning the awards above and below this one). Every now and then, however, upstart companies give us a nice surprise with their offerings, and Femme Funn has one on their hands here with the Bougie Wand. A tasteful spin on the classic wand model that every brand seems to have a version of these days, it’s powerful and designed for fun temperature play in watery settings. Time to turn the heat up on bath time.
Check out the Femme Funn Bougie Wand
Best Prostate Toy
LELO Hugo 2
It can be easy to get something wrong when you’re updating a time-honored classic, as LELO was doing with the winner in this category two years running, the Hugo. Luckily for all parties involved, that’s not what happened with the Hugo 2: It’s smooth, it’s sleek, it’s sexy, and it’s capable of absolutely rocking your prostate thanks to powerful motors and an easy-to-use remote. Want someone else to do it for you? Look no further — it’s Bluetooth capable and app-controlled, too. Truly the cream of the P-spot crop.
Check out the LELO Hugo 2
Best Phallus Ring
Promescent Penis Ring Vibrator
Cock rings have come a long way since the days they were first being used, if historians are to be believed, over a thousand years ago. Today, in addition to exerting pressure on the base of your erection to help it stay harder for longer, they can also do things like Promescent’s ring – which is to say, vibrate. Good for your pleasure, yes — also good for your partner’s pleasure. Though Promescent’s best known for their sexual health offerings, this sex toy entry is a strong one.
Check out the Promescent Penis Ring Vibrator
Best Distance Toy
Lovense Lush 3
Surprise, surprise — though it’s older than many of the other options on this list, the past year hasn’t seen anyone beat out Lovense’s Lush 3 with a superior product, so it takes the crown in this category a third year in a row. Its look is now somewhat iconic, but it’s popular for a reason: powerful, discreet, and digitally super-charged, with the ability to make it vibrate from anywhere on Earth using the Lovense app, for either pleasure or profit. If you have a single exhibitionist bone in your body, take it out for a spin in public some time.
Check out the Lovense Lush 3
Best Kinky Toy
Lovehoney All You Need and More Bondage Kit
Looking to start exploring the wild and weird world of kink play? Lovehoney’s All You Need and the More Bondage Kit is a great place to start. Bundling together wrist and ankle restraints, a blindfold, a dildo, a bullet vibrator, a cock ring, a spanking paddle and silicone nipple suckers, it’s a one-stop shop for impact play, sensory deprivation play, bondage play, sensation play and domination play.
Check out the Lovehoney All You Need and More Bondage Kit
Best Alternative Toy
LELO Siri 3
Sometimes when you give awards to products, it’s important to create whole new categories just to reward a brand’s outside-the-box thinking. That’s the case with LELO’s music-focused Siri 3 toy. Sex and songs are hardly a new combination — Shakespeare, after all, called music the food of love — but has any sex toy brand so thoughtfully combined the two pleasures together before? It uses SoundSense technology to convert soundwaves into vibrations and pulses, and yes, it works like a charm. Time to fire up the sex playlist…
Check out the LELO Siri 3
Best Budget-Friendly Toy
plusOne Rose Arouser
Rose toys have been taking the internet by storm in recent years, which is both good and bad. The good? Roses are beautiful, and sex toys that look like one are just plain nice. The bad? There’s not exactly a lot of clarity in terms of who’s making them, and knockoffs abound. One you won’t regret purchasing? plusOne’s version, which is a whole lot of bang for your buck at $27.99. While it’s not for people with penises, it does allow you to buy your special someone some flowers and some orgasms at the same time. Rare opportunity, not to be missed!
Check out the plusOne Rose Arouser
Best Travel-Friendly Toy
LELO Dot Travel
Want to take pleasure on the go? Sure you do. Everyone knows that vacation sex can be some of the hottest sex there is — but sex toys aren’t always the most fun to transport. A compact sex toy that doesn’t exactly look like a sex toy — in case anyone’s inspecting your luggage — is a huge bonus. Thankfully, LELO has designed just that for clitoris-havers with the Dot Travel. Get ready to engage in some fun mutual masturbation or toy-assisted partnered sex in the hotel room…
Check out the Lelo Dot Travel
Best Bedroom Products
Best Water-Based Lube
Head South Slip Serum
Unfortunately, we still live in a world where lube shaming exists. In the future, when we don’t, everyone will be excited to share their favorite lube brands with each other. This year, we’re enamored with Head South’s Slip Serum. As a water-based lube, it’s not insanely long-lasting, so you may need to reapply, but it’s 100% compatible with both condoms and sex toys of any kind, it won’t leave stains, and it’s easy to wash out. It’s a wonderful, simple entry into a category with lots of great competition.
Check out Head South Slip Serum
Best Silicone-Based Lube
Überlube Silicone Lubricant
Want a lube that feels great and doesn’t dry up? Sure you do. Want a lube that feels great, doesn’t dry up, and outperforms all the other ones in its class? If so, you’re thinking of überlube, basically. Though, like all silicone-based lubes, it’s not to be mixed with silicone-based toys (that’s most toys these days), it is condom-safe and a great pick for people who want to add a little bit (or a lot) of extra slipperiness to their penetration.
Check out Überlube Silicone Lubricant
Best Flavored Lube
La Nua Honey Vanilla Lube
If you and your partner are among the many duos who need a little lube to make things work in the sack, you might also be among the many who wonder: What happens when you want to switch from penetrative sex to a blow job? Specifically, what if you don’t want the penis being blown to taste like lube? Well, the answer is flavored lube. La Nua Honey Vanilla boasts both a pleasing and sensual flavor along with a pleasantly smooth texture that makes it our pick in this category.
Check out La Nua Honey Vanilla Lube
Best Backdoor Lube
Pjur Back Door Relaxing Silicone Lubricant
Anal sex requires a different caliber of lube than vaginal sex does — in large part because, well, the butt isn’t self-lubricating. You need a lube that can last and last and last. For the most part, that means avoiding water-based lubes. But regular silicone lubes aren’t always enough, and that’s where Pjur’s Back Door lube comes in: It contains muscle-relaxing jojoba oil, to help bottoms loosen up and take it, thereby reducing pain without any numbing agents that could prevent them from recognizing something’s gone wrong. A great concept that works like a charm.
Check out Pjur Back Door Relaxing Silicone Lubricant
Best Sexual Problem-Solving Products
Best PE Product
Blowmotion Adjustable Stamina Trainer
Ever heard that the best way to stop cumming quickly is simply to have more sex? It’s not very helpful advice, since sex isn’t always available, but there’s also something to it. The Blowmotion Adjustable Stamina Trainer is here to fill the gap (if you will) for guys looking to train themselves to orgasm less quickly but who don’t have a steady partner they can practice with. With a strap that allows you to adjust the tightness, an open-ended design that won’t overstimulate the head of your penis and a highly textured feel, it’s a great (and relatively affordable) way to get some fun edging play in.
Check out the Blowmotion Adjustable Stamina Trainer
Best PE Treatment
Promescent Delay Spray
Reaching orgasm sooner than you expected is a real mixed bag. While it is nice to have all those nice climax feelings, there’s also the disappointment — and possibly the fear that you’ve disappointed the other person. Want a no-fuss quick fix to regular premature ejaculation frustration? Try Promescent’s Delay Spray. It’s engineered to decrease the sensitivity in your penis, allowing you to last longer, and it’ll absorb into your skin quickly, so your partner won’t feel the effects even if you’re not using a condom.
Check out Promescent Delay Spray
Best ED Treatment
Ro Daily Rise Gummies
Erectile difficulties are no fun for anyone. They are, however, a problem that can be addressed, and the 21st century has seen incredible leaps forward in technological approaches to doing just that. Part of the issue has always been what the best way to ingest ED medication is — with competing schools of thought on daily versus situational doses. Ro’s new Daily Rise Gummies, obviously, believe the former — if it’s a part of your daily routine, then you’re always ready to go, anytime, any place, and (theoretically) you never need to kick yourself, should a situation arise out of nowhere. Plus, they’re gummies. Who doesn’t love a gummy?
Check out Ro Daily Rise Gummies
Best Pain-Reduction Product
The Pelvic People Ohnut
Sex is supposed to be fun — but unfortunately, lots of people experience pain during penetration. If you’re one of the many guys with a partner whose vagina doesn’t always enjoy being entered, listen up — The Pelvic People are here for you. Their Ohnut is a revolutionary toy for helping straight couples achieve mutually pleasurable intercourse by limiting the depth of penetration. The stretchy, stackable rings retain body heat so the penetrating partner can still enjoy feeling like they’re getting full penetration, while the penetrated partner can relax knowing they don’t have to take the whole length of the shaft.
Check out The Pelvic People Ohnut
Best Clit Arousal Product
Epiphany Clit Arousal Serum
Many hetero couples struggle with things like ‘desire discordance’ and the ‘orgasm gap.’ If the (or a) person in your relationship with a clitoris has trouble orgasming during sex, maybe what they’re lacking is an epiphany… or rather, a tube of Epiphany’s new Clit Arousal Serum. Just rub a few drops of this near-magical product on and the clit-haver will start experiencing a pleasant tingling sensation that stimulates the sensitive clitoral nerve endings, making sex way more exciting — and orgasm-filled — than before.
Check out the Epiphany Clit Arousal Serum
Best Condoms
Best Latex Condoms
MyONE Custom Fit by ONE Condoms
Unfortunately for condoms — a miracle product that can prevent all kinds of bad scenarios from occurring during sex — they’re not the most popular products in the world. We believe some of that issue comes down to fit: Not enough guys have tried condoms that fit them perfectly. Luckily, there’s a condom brand that’s trying to change that: ONE Condoms. They offer a wide variety of sizes and shapes that take into account the fact that every penis is slightly different, meaning you have a really good shot at finding your own perfect condom.
Check out MyONE Custom Fit by ONE Condoms
Best Non-Latex Condoms
Durex Avanti Bare Real Feel
Apart from fit and sizing issues, there’s another thing that makes condoms unpleasant for some people, and that’s latex allergies. If you’re one of those people, you want the best non-latex condoms you can find, and at the moment, we think that’s Durex’s Avanti Bare Real Feel condoms. They’re thin, they’re lubricated, they come in a really nice looking box, and best of all, they’re 100% latex-free.
Check out Durex Avanti Bare Real Feel
Best Ultra-Thin Condoms
SKYN Supreme Feel
Want to stay STI-free but also want to feel as much as possible during penetrative sex? That’s understable. What you’re looking for are ultra-thin condoms. Though they’re likely to feel a little on the tighter side for more well-endowed guys, for medium and smaller penises their sheer thinness will be quite hard to beat, meaning you really do get to feel everything while still retaining prophylactic protection peace of mind.
Check out SKYN Supreme Feel
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